New bioarchaeological perspectives on pre-contact lifeways in Sahul

该项目旨在建立一个新的生物考古研究项目，以研究澳大利亚-新几内亚大陆Sahul的社会经济变化，并从不同的环境中为社会的复杂性提供新的见解。生物考古学为解释过去提供了一个独特的视角，然而，由于研究土著居民祖先遗骸的敏感性，这种性质的研究在很大程度上是不活跃的。然而，土著群体对可以从他们的祖先那里重建的叙述越来越感兴趣，许多土著社区现在支持对骨骼遗骸的研究。该项目与土著社区合作，将应用生物考古学的新发展，敏感地评估三个不同人口的流动和定居模式。预计该项目将开启生物考古研究的新时代，并重新定义我们对过去土著和巴布亚叙述的复杂性的理解。

This project aims to establish a new bioarchaeology research program to study socio-economic changes in the Australia-New Guinea continent Sahul and provide new insights into the complexity of societies from diverse environments. Bioarchaeology provides a unique lens for interpreting the past, however research of this nature has largely been inactive due to the sensitivity of studying ancestral remains of Indigenous people. However, there is growing interest from Aboriginal groups in the narratives that can be reconstructed from their ancestors, and many Aboriginal communities now support research on skeletal remains. In collaboration with Aboriginal communities, the project will apply new developments in bioarchaeology to sensitively assess patterns of mobility and sedentism in three separate populations. This project is expected to initiate a new era of bioarchaeological research and redefine our understanding of the complexity of past Aboriginal and Papuan narratives.